Chapter 5 Student Quiz

. For most of our existence, Homo sapiens has survived by:

Trading

Farming

Hunting, gathering, foraging, and fishing

Scavenging

. Hunter-gatherer-foragers are and have been:

Highly mobile, moving from site to site.

More sedentary, with settlements lasting months or longer.

Only mobile when planting season is over.

Both a and b.

. Residues from stone tools in Russia and the Czech Republic reveal that people were making basic flour as early as:

100,000 cal BC.

50,000 cal BC.

30,000 cal BC.

10,000 cal BC.

. Domestication of plants and animals is the equivalent of:

Taming animals.

Capturing plants and animals.

Killing aggressive animals.

Controlling breeding as a form of artificial selection.

. In the Old World, changing climate at the end of the Pleistocene made the world:

More favorable for hunting-gathering-foraging.

Less favorable for hunting-gathering-foraging.

Impossible for hunters, but favorable for foragers.

Largely unchanged for hunter-gatherer-foragers.

. The Natufian period (13,000 - 9600 cal BC) was a time when deserts:

Expanded.

Diminished.

Became swampland.

Were not inhabited.

. Early Natufians at sites like 'Ain Mallaha were able to establish villages because of:

Abundant fish.

Abundant large game animals.

The development of agriculture.

The use of storable resources.

. According to Chapter 5, where were cattle domesticated?

The Zagros Mountains

Marshlands of northern Syria

Southern Turkey

The southern Arabian peninsula.

. In the Levant, the earliest part of the Neolithic is the:

Pre-pottery Neolithic.

Pottery Neolithic.

Upper Neolithic.

Archaic Neolithic.

. Domestication of plants and animals occurred:

In the Fertile crescent, then spread around the world.

In Europe, then spread around the world.

In several places on several different continents.

In multiple places, except animals-which were all domesticated in the Middle East.

. The Hostile Pleistocene theory suggests that:

Humans might have developed agriculture sooner, but the climate was not favorable.

The climate of the Pleistocene forced humans to develop agriculture as a survival strategy.

The climate of the Pleistocene allowed agriculture to develop near the equator first.

Humans actively change or manipulate the landscape around them to build a niche for long-term survival.

. The theory suggesting that environmental changes in the late Pleistocene led to clustering of people, plants, and animals-with close association leading to revolutionary change-is called the:

Oasis theory.

Readiness theory.

Human behavioral ecology.

Younger Dryas Theory.

. Increasing population size and density-which might have led to agricultural innovation-is known as:

Dispersal theory.

Feasting theory.

Population pressure.

Global population growth theory.

. Egalitarian societies are:

Restricted to hunter-gatherer-foragers.

Composed of small bands with a tight hierarchical power structure.

Usually have hereditary chiefs.

Sometimes found in villages and other settings.

. What is NOT true of state-level societies?

All states develop the same characteristics in the same ways.

States are by definition not egalitarian.

States develop layers of bureaucracy.

States are considered to be politically complex.

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